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- geekchic, on 08/11/2008, -7/+68Sticking an i in front of your brandname - how original.
- Rev0lver, on 08/13/2008, -2/+44iReally iDont iLike iThis iTrend.
- merlin484, on 08/11/2008, -5/+38core i7? terrible name
- Shogi, on 08/11/2008, -6/+38This fad needs to ***** die.
- trevorh, on 08/11/2008, -2/+25These chips are going to be amazing but the name strikes me as awful and the stupid iWhatever naming system needs to die.
- stephenhacking, on 08/11/2008, -2/+23Who cares what its called as long its better than the rest.
- iizh, on 08/13/2008, -0/+20Intel did it before it was cool.
iAPX 432, i860, i960, i386, i486... - Topher06, on 08/11/2008, -4/+21but putting the i in front of a 7 is pure marketing brilliance...
- Cabal, on 08/13/2008, -0/+16Ya, just like the i386 or i486
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -2/+16Introducing the new Intel Core SpinBrush with Intel DualFlaussing Technology and 4 Antibacterial Cleansing Cores!
- DMDekoth, on 08/13/2008, -0/+13One word: Thundercougarfalconbird.
- octus, on 08/13/2008, -0/+12As mentioned above, Intel started this far before Apple. I believe the reasoning was that they couldn't trademark the well-known "386" brand as you couldn't trademark a number. So, they dubbed the 386 "i386", i.e. Intel 386. I'm assuming i7 is a reference to i786, but that's just a guess.
See:
http://www.weirdstuff.com/mas_assets/thumb/13034.j ... - netneutrality, on 08/12/2008, -5/+15I opened this page just to comment on the lousy name. I see I'm not alone.
i7? Sounds like a fricking hair-curler. The word "toothbrush" is more powerful than "i7". - inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+9Typical consumer:
"7? That's like 4 more than two! It's got to be better" - rockon4life45, on 08/13/2008, -1/+10i7
iteration 7
pentium (1)
pentium II (2)
pentium III (3)
pentium IIII (4)
core (5)
core 2 (6)
i7 (7)
at least it's not called pentium 7 or core 3 duo - kjubik, on 08/13/2008, -0/+82+4=7 ?
- SHUUTOBI, on 08/13/2008, -1/+8http://digg.com/apple/Intel_Officially_Brands_Neha ...
ofn is ofn. - inactive, on 08/13/2008, -1/+8And some marketing guy got paid to come up with these names.
- iizh, on 08/13/2008, -0/+7For Intel it's not new.
iAPX 432, i860, i960, i386, i486...
In fact, the first one on that list was from 1981. - inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+7How are people not getting this? SPAM in any form is not OK. Go ***** yourself man. I don't care what you're advertising - How many people do you see doing that here? Not that damn many. And I hope all of them get banned.
- jeremypv, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5Intel actually was the first one that introduced the 'i' prefix, look at i386
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 - inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5Quad plentium seven netburst core 8 extreme.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5Yeah, The same one Apple hired apparently
- conorkirk, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4/facepalm
- JonLatane, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Don't forget:
i486
i586
i686
i786 -> i7
I'm not sure that there's really a new instruction set per se (can't say I'm up on Intel assembler these days), but it's another logical trend. - brianegge, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3I was hoping the next processors would be called the Core 4 Quartet.
- jeremypv, on 08/13/2008, -1/+4just occurred to me (probably unrelated), but has a subliminal message
Core IT - santaliqueur, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Usually we say read the ***** article, but in this case, read the ***** FIRST WORD.
- TheInformer, on 08/13/2008, -1/+4Will the new i7 run the next-gen iMac?
- jamesdew, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Remember AMD made the athlon XP back when XP was the thing to put after your product name.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -2/+5It's in "Apple" though, and that's very inaccurate. I support this duplicate.
- trevorh, on 08/11/2008, -1/+4The sockets are not compatible it looks like Nehalem will us a pin out with 1336 pins.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc ... - annjay, on 08/11/2008, -6/+9Hopefully, this will be a great new chip. Thanks for sharing with us.
- robszol, on 08/13/2008, -2/+5i HATE seeing everything with i in front of it. I want everything with i in front of it to explode.....oh wait
- Khanvalescent, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3This decade in technology naming trends brought to you buy the letter "i".
- rowlodge, on 08/12/2008, -1/+4so every other chip they make goes down in price?
- kidwithsword, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3Lol. Intel- "Hey everyone! We have some good news! We've made so much progress on our new microprocessor line that we can tell you that it will be called i7. Now come back in a year or two and we'll tell you when it will come out. It is safe to assume it will come out a year later than when we tell you in a year or two."
- init100, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2But they didn't. If they had, Core would have been renamed to iCore.
- Retrospekt, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2How many times has this hit the front page?
And really, with Intel's price gouging on new products, anyone actually going to buy it at release? - kansai22, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2I feel like I'm in the movie groundhog day.
(this was on the front page yesterday at the same time) - M724, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Didn't we learn anything from the confusion that happened when we jumped from Pentium to Core? I remember one of the conversations I heard so many times:
Customer: So this is not Pentium?
Clerk: No. It's a Core.
Customer: So is it better than a Pentium 4?
Clerk: Um...it came after it?
Customer: So is it better?
Clerk: Yeeeeeeeeeeah...(sigh) - Oppslagsverk, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Dupe and relatively old.
- Meocross, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Rofl!! how did i miss this?
- svensksvamp, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2I don't give a *****, just put it in my computer already!
- MrViklund, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Intel has really struggled with the naming of their chips lately. Core 2 duo. Atom and now Core i7. Incredible... I wonder if they fired their naming experts.
- Zlorp, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2i take it none of you saw this when it was posted yesterday
- Nintendesert, on 08/13/2008, -1/+3The chip is absolutely badass and I look forward to building a system around one, however the name is horrible. I understand they want to keep the Core name due to the architecture, we had Core, then Core 2, I would have preferred Core 3 or Core n7. Or even Core *****. Anything is really better than the iFad.
- ba5e, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Yes but its core i7 not core2 i7. . .this will confuse people. i7 relates to the 7the gen of arcitecture for Intel, core2 being gen 6. They were called core2 to emphasise the dual core nature, calling it only core makes it sound like the previous core (solo) chips Intel released before core2.
http://digg.com/hardware/Intel_readies_the_world_f ... - inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1How many cores is it?
- Metheny, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Just a guess, but Intel may be trying to mitigate the 'how many cores is this?' confusion with the new naming. Cuz I guarantee this new version won't have 3 cores. IMO, the 'Core' naming was potentially misleading.
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